Thanks for this, Nigel.

I’m currently using the Atahualpa theme for this site, and I was very satisfied with it up until seeing how much better photos could be presented with a responsive theme like Eclipse (the one I’m trying out for the photoblog site).

Text, however … I’m not sure. I’m looking at the Pinboard theme which a friend is using but I have issues with the readability of theme colours.

Perhaps all I really need to do is redesign what I’ve got (But I’m thinking about the new site for Elin’s Story too.)

TheSupercargo in its original incarnation was created with Dreamweaver (the version just before Adobe bought it and the price went through the roof 🙂 ). I still have that old software and a computer it runs on, but I shall happily take a look at Serif. The problem is (for me) that I don’t think “code is poetry”. I think of it more as “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing” – except without the tale, or the sound, or even the fury (if it’s not mine). I can just about batter my way through HTML coding (HTML3 that is!) but PHP, Javascript, Ajax, CSS and all the rest leave me mostly frustrated. WordPress is a great solution … when you don’t have to change anything, but changing things often brings me back to screaming. Atahualpa has a very friendly, helpful community, but even there I find they tend to forget they aren’t necessarily addressing programmers.

As far as speed goes, living in Sweden where the majority of people with Internet access have broadband of some sort, speed hasn’t been something I’ve worried about for many years. Thanks for reminding me that reaching out to a wider audience it might be a good idea to take it into consideration. (Visiting England – even London – Internet connection can sometimes feel like swimming in treacle.) I for one would like to read what you have to say about factors influencing load speed.

Cheers!